Thursday 25th Elevated Acre

I  had read a brochure about the South St Seaport Museum and thought it might be interesting.  I found the area,  but many of the buildings have not yet had their post-Sandy repairs completed and the whole place was a non-event. The brochure talked about  old printing workshops, wood carving, displays of this and that and old ships. You could not get near the ships and the museum was not open. There were lots of shops still closed.

I walked on to an area called the Elevated Acre that I had read about in my peaceful book.  You cannot see this place from the street . You go up some stairs between 2 office towers and find yourself in a nice space of shrubs, bushes, grass(fake), some benches and a lovely view over the East River. -    and the 6 lane expressway beneath you. I tried sitting for a while but the drone of the traffic  bothered me.

I looked at  Stone Street , said somewhere to be the last cobblestone street in NY. It may well be, but it is now filled with tables for the cafes that line either side of it.. I went on to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal where I will meet the cousin of a Canberra friend  who I met last year. I stopped for lunch in my block on the way home and then fell asleep. I was going to go to a concert of a music school nearby tonight but will go to bed early instead.